Vitamin K

Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-0-12-374113-4
Verlag: William Andrew Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 300 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 880 g

Vitamin K, one of the group of fat-soluble vitamins (A, D, E and K), has come into prominence lately because its activity as a blood coagulation factor impinges on the widespread occurrence of deep vein thrombosis in the human population especially in the older age group. This volume focuses, not only on the problem of blood coagulation and hypercoagulability, but upon the individual status of vitamin K in the human.

First published in 1943, Vitamins and Hormones is the longest-running serial published by Academic Press. Under the capable and qualified editorial leadership of Dr. Gerald Litwack, Vitamins and Hormones continues to publish cutting-edge reviews of interest to endocrinologists, biochemists, nutritionists, pharmacologists, cell biologists, and molecular biologists.

Zielgruppe

Researchers, faculty, and graduate students interested in cutting-edge review concerning the molecular and cellular biology of vitamins, hormones, and related factors and co-factors.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Litwack, Gerald

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Vorklinische Medizin: Grundlagenfächer Physiologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE OF HUMAN QUINONE REDUCTASE Gas6 GENE IN EARLY DIABETES VITAMIN K-DEPENDENT ?×-CARBOXYLATION VITAMIN K-DEPENDENT CARBOXYLATION DETERMINANTS OF VITAMIN K IN HUMANS VITAMIN K AND BONE CONDITION IN HUMAN ADULTS VITAMIN K DEPENDENT Gas6 ACTION CONGENITAL BLEEDING DISORDERS OF THE VITAMIN K DEPENDENT CLOTTING FACTORS DIAGNOSIS OF OSTEOPOROSIS QUINONE OXIDOREDUCTASES AND VITAMIN K METABOLISM DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS AND VITAMIN K HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA AND VITAMIN K VITAMIN K AND MITOCHONDRIAL TRANSMEMBRANE POTENTIAL NEW UNDERSTANDING OF THE VITAMIN K CYCLE AND ITS DOWNSTREAM PATHWAYSVKORC1 AND THE VITAMIN K CYCLE STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF VITAMIN K EPOXIDE REDUCTASE WARFARIN THERAPY AND VITAMIN K VKORC1 AND HUMAN CLOTTING FACTORS

Über Autor(innen)

Litwack, Gerald
Dr. Litwack has authored 3 textbooks on biochemistry and hormones (one with John Wiley & Sons and 2 with Academic Press/Elsevier) and he has edited more than 70 volumes in the Vitamins & Hormones series (Academic Press/Elsevier); he has edited 14 volumes entitled Biochemical Actions of Hormones (Academica Press); He has edited (with David Kritchevsky) Actions of Hormones on Molecular Processes (Academic Press)

Trained in biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Dr. Litwack worked on enzymology and the effects of hormones on enzyme systems. Then he was a Postdoctoral Fellow of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis at the Biochemical Institute of the Sorbonne in Paris. Dr. Litwack's first position was as Assistant Professor of Biochemistry at Rutgers University in 1954. Six years later, he joined the University of Pennsylvania as associate professor and four years later went to the Fels Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Biology, as full professor, eventually becoming Deputy Director of the Institute. In 1991, he accepted the Chair of Pharmacology at Thomas Jefferson University where he is also Deputy Director of the Jefferson Cancer Institute and Associate Director for Basic Science in the Jefferson Cancer Center. Dr. Litwack's work has been in the area of mechanisms of steroid receptor action involving especially the glucocorticoid and mineralocorticoid receptors, immunophi.